What an amazing night Death Cab For Cutie had brought to Hong Kong! Exclusive interview and concert review will be up soon. They are in love with our city already and said will definitely come back again! (Special thanks to DCFC and Your Mum team for having us. Photo by @mohawkmajorie)

Many audience were complaining Damien Rice’s Clockenflap headline set was way to short, so here’s your chance to catch his full length performance! Alternative rock fans you know it’d be a crime for missing this show!

Shut up and let them take your red pocket money! Still not sure how to spend your extra income? Here’re the four upcoming shows we highly recommend to you – from post-rock, alternative rock to extreme metal – Geeeeet your tickets now from Ticketflap.com

芬蘭旋死金屬樂團 Kalmah 將於三月首次來港宣傳最新專輯 Seventh Swamphony。熟悉北歐金屬圈的朋友們相信不會對他們陌生吧！到時更會有當暖場嘉賓的 Path The Path！ Finnish melodic death metal group Kalmah will have their debut performance in Hong Kong in March to promote their new album, “Seventh Swamphony.” You can also catch our local metal outfits Pave The Path during the opening set.

Remember the teaser we shared earlier on taking from The Used’s heart-wrenching acoustic DVD “Live and Acoustic at The Palace”? The band finally released one of the session as official video “The Bird and the Worm”.

This album was recorded at the band’s intimate unplugged storyteller performance, which took place at The Palace Theater in Los Angeles last month. Bert McCracken shared, “I think we really captured the night perfectly and listening back to the mixes it reminded me how music can allow us to be children once again and once you open yourself up to that emotion it’s like a virus, it’s contagious.” He continued, “Nearly every eye in the venue was weepy the night we played with the orchestra because these songs are so emotional and this recording is a truly special thing that I can’t wait for everyone to hear. It still gives me goose bumps.”

As many of you might have noticed – rumours had been flying around that Foo Fighters would break up or go on infinite hiatus because Dave Grohl’s solo career. The band uploaded an “Official Band Announcement” today and let you know what they are up to. And…. (spoiler alert) Nothing’s gonna happen! The video was filmed with Grohl leaving the band for a solo career for electronica / singing career with the rest of the band looking for a new vocalist, which turns out inviting 98 Degrees’ Nick Lachey doing a trial session! The clip ended with a message from Foo Fighters promising all is rumours and they are NOT disbanded. Nice work Foo!

深受香港樂迷歡迎的 Architects 上載新作 A Match Made In Heaven 的預告，歌曲很大機會成為新專輯的單曲。樂團2014年推出的 Lost Forever // Lost Together 專輯得到不少樂評人及聽眾給予正評。

Architects release a teaser of their new song “A Match Made In Heaven”, which will possibly be the single of their new album, following the band’s critically-acclaimed album “Lost Forever // Lost Together” released in 2014.

Behemoth will have a new beer out soon! “Bafomet”, a Russian Imperial Stout with 11.6% ABV, will be the third beer under their brand. The black metallers had released “Sacrum” and “Heretyk” last year. Who can resist to their exquisite gothic label graphics!?

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[NEWS] Vicious Love! Hayley Williams Gets Married!

Paramore’s 27-year old frontwoman Hayley Williams ties the knot with the 34-year-old New Found Glory guitarist Chad Gilbert! Here’s the couple collaboration in New Found Glory’s video “Vicious Love” to discussing the “tattooed love”.

When talking about Sub Pop Records, you will remember their contribution to the grunge movement by signing the genre’s superstars Nirvana and Soundgarden. Today the label is calling on “losers” and “art-enthused misfits” and those “involved and/or interested in music and/or the creative arts in some way,” to apply their scholarship. There will be three selected winning students – one for USD$7,000, one for USD$5,000 and one for USD$3,000.

Yellowcard premiered the now pop-punk classic video of “Ocean Avenue” in 2004 this week. The song is the second single from the album of the same name. Do you know the song title “Ocean Avenue” and lyrics “Cherry Street” are referencing the actual streets in the band’s hometown Jacksonville, Florida? Yellowcard visited Hong Kong for the first time in 2014. You can revisit the unforgettable moments in our Live Gallery here.

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[FLASHBACK] Happy 30th Master of Puppets

For any metal fans, you have probably listened to Master of Puppets for hundreds of times. MOP is celebrating 30th anniversary this week! It is the 3rd studio album by Metallica and has produced a number of thrash metal classic including title track of the same name and Welcome Home (Sanitarium).

People used to say leap year brings you demon and means a plague of death. If so, here’s a perfect song leading you to the leap year! “Afterlife” was released as the third single from Avenged Sevenfold self-titled album. The song features a string orchestra and was written by the band’s drummer, The Rev, who passed away in 2009 at the age of 28.

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[FLASHBACK] “It’s More Than Music To Us”

Throwback to your most memorable live gig in your life – You know it’s more than music to you. It’s happiness, friendship, brotherhood and irreplaceable memory of your life, regardless if what genre it belongs to.